![]() ![]() It's one of those "extreme" sports that becomes fashionable with certain types of thrill-seekers, but freediving attracts people of all ages and body types. The interesting parts are when the author introduces us to freediving - the sport of diving as deep as possible without gear, just the air in your lungs. Along the way Nestor unlocks his own freediving skills as he communes with the pioneers who are expanding our definition of what is possible in the natural world - and in ourselves.įreediving is about half very interesting book and half rather dull journalistic travelogue. ![]() Most illuminating of all, he learns that these abilities are reflected in our own remarkable and often hidden potential - including echolocation, directional sense, and the profound bodily changes humans undergo when underwater. He finds whales that communicate with other whales hundreds of miles away, sharks that swim in unerringly straight lines through pitch-black waters, and other strange phenomena. Fascinated by the sport of freediving - in which competitors descend to great depths on a single breath - James Nestor embeds with a gang of oceangoing extreme athletes and renegade researchers. ![]() ![]() Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014, 272 pagesĭeep is a voyage from the ocean's surface to its darkest trenches, the most mysterious places on Earth. ![]()
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